Chapter 139: Inoue Learning Spiritual Practice
"Fighting?!"
"Impossible. If it was recent, with our spiritual senses, we couldn't have failed to notice it."
"Inoue!"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Hearing Inoue's words, Fiander retorted instinctively at first, but after thinking calmly, he decided to investigate.
"According to the method I've now transmitted into your sea of consciousness, gather your spiritual power and restore what occurred here."
Hearing Fiander finish speaking, Inoue was stunned for a moment, then asked blankly: "But... what is spiritual power, and how should I condense it?"
"Can't Reiatsu be used here?"
"Sigh..."
Fiander exhaled softly and said: "Do people in this world only focus on physical training and Reiatsu cultivation?"
"It's truly troublesome to explain from the beginning."
"Forget it, forget it. Let's take this slowly."
Fiander suddenly pointed to Inoue's forehead, and as her eyes turned white, massive amounts of information flooded into Inoue's mind like sudden enlightenment.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
As Inoue clutched her head, she crouched down with a pained expression, and the agony from her brain made her fingers nearly draw blood from her scalp.
Seeing that Inoue's condition wasn't right, Fiander quickly chanted a strange incantation.
"Cadorna, with wisdom's dawn, caressing the morning light, drifting away..."
As gentle white light covered Inoue's body, the pain throughout her form was relieved. Her tightly furrowed brow gradually relaxed, and she slowly opened her sweat-drenched eyes.
At this moment, she suddenly felt the world was remarkably clear to her eyes—she could even detect the whistling wind.
"This... what exactly is this..."
Inoue gently touched her head, feeling incredibly amazed.
"In the spiritual world, you cannot use external power. Whether your Reiatsu or your abilities, they cannot manifest here."
"If you don't believe me, you can try."
After listening to Fiander's words, Inoue sensed the hairpin on her head and instinctively shouted: "Santen Kesshun!"
"Koten Zanshun!"
"Soten Kisshun!"
"Ayame, Shuno, Lily, Tsubaki... everyone, why won't you..."
At this moment, Inoue felt helpless. She had always relied on the companionship of her Shun Shun Rikka members, never leaving them whether in battle or daily life.
"Didn't I say this is the spiritual world? Your Fullbring—by the way, you don't know what Fullbring is."
"It's your supernatural ability, which cannot be realized here unless your ability itself relates to spiritual power."
Inoue finally understood why Fiander had to emphasize these matters repeatedly, but then she immediately thought of something else and asked him.
"You just said that things realized in the physical world cannot manifest in the spiritual world. Then how can Kurosaki-kun, who was invaded by an evil god, protect himself?"
"You've finally grasped the point. You don't need to worry about his safety, because the most important thing now is finding them first."
"Them? You mean it's not only Kurosaki-kun?"
Inoue asked instinctively.
"When did I tell you there's only one person inside Kurosaki Ichigo's body? He's so powerful—there's already a full table of people in his body. They could play poker.."
Fiander said this jokingly, then continued: "I've enlightened you and opened your spiritual power, and it's exactly as I expected."
"You do have talent in this area. Or rather, anyone who can cultivate Kido to a high level has potential for spiritual power cultivation."
"Calm down, feel your heart, manifest your spiritual power, and operate it as an attack or as an extension of your body. This is the first step."
After listening to Fiander's words, Inoue first closed her eyes, sank her consciousness into her heart's depths, and began exploring the so-called spiritual power in her sea of consciousness. Soon, she sensed a light source.
It was a mass of colorful clouds with no fixed shape. She could control it through her mental power and make it take any form she desired.
First came animals—kittens, puppies, small fish—then Hollows... and then Kurosaki Ichigo's appearance.
"Wake up!! Inoue!!"
A sudden shout pulled Inoue back from her internal spiritual world.
"What... what just happened!"
Inoue asked Fiander blankly.
"Your spiritual core strength is remarkably powerful. Without sufficient mental discipline, rashly sinking into it—if it takes too long, you'll become mindless."
"In the world I came from, many geniuses self-destructed after sinking into their spiritual worlds. There are countless such cases."
"How was it? How does it feel touching your spiritual core for the first time?"
Fiander smiled and asked Inoue.
"It's an amazing feeling... like if I wanted to... I could accomplish so many things."
After listening to Inoue's answer, Fiander said proudly: "That's correct, but there's one thing you must remember..."
"After leaving this spiritual realm, absolutely don't expose this power to the outside world. You're still relatively weak now and won't be noticed by him. If your strength improves, once you reveal this, I cannot guarantee what will happen."
"Yes... I understand!"
Hearing Fiander speak with such gravity, although she didn't know why, Inoue suppressed her doubts and responded honestly.
"Very good. Now gather your spiritual strength and lift the stone on your right."
"Understood!"
Immediately, Inoue used the mental power in her mind to slowly lift a black rock weighing over twenty kilograms, making it float in the air.
"Enough. Release it."
"Yes!"
Inoue responded excitedly—after all, mastering and using new power for the first time inevitably caused excitement.
Afterward, Inoue released her spiritual force, and the black rock lost control, smashing heavily into the sand and creating a small crater.
"Next, according to the technique I taught you, let your spiritual power spread across this scorched land, then slowly extend to this bloody lake."
"Use mental power as your eyes, as the eyes of your limbs and organs, and spread it outward. You can do this."
"Don't worry about lacking spiritual power, because I'll share mine with you. This is a rare experience. You should seize this opportunity."
"Because I don't know when the next time I can do this will be!"
At this moment, Fiander entered full teaching mode, instructing Inoue how to use mental power to restore and sense the surrounding situation.
"Yes, I'll work hard!"
Inoue nodded firmly, then sank her mind into her spiritual core following her previous method. Just as she descended, white light that illuminated the entire world poured into her spiritual realm, making her vision completely blank—she couldn't see anything.
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